The Cape Dory Board

I don't have much experience but perhaps I can be helpful. I tow an Albin Vega 27 with about the same displacement as a 25D. I've got an F-250 with a gas engine, 3.73 ratio axles, and most important, a 6 speed automatic transmission with so-called tow/haul mode. Part of tow/haul is real engine braki...

I don't have a chartplotter recommendation but have had recent experience with Garmin product support. I've got a GPSMap 78sc and trivial experience with it as a marine GPS. I'm a sucker for multipurpose tools and installed Garmin's North America road maps on it, which is supposed to work. The GPS w...

Here in Colorado the snowpack is next year's water supply.
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_19640350

I've always regarded slashdot.org and eweek as credible. http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/10/13/0019201/nato-exercise-banned-from-jamming-gps "A major NATO exercise off the coast of Scotland has been ordered to stop using GPS jamming technology after complaints that to do so would endanger the l...

What this sounds like is an entrepreneur who can produce a fine product (and everything that goes into producing it) but who just doesn't have it when it comes to managing the business.

fyi:
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/ ... as-edison/

O J, ..... 1. Drag or resistance can be measured by the force it takes to overcome it. ..... The force with which the shaft is spinning is indeed related to the force required to stop it from spinning. The force of the spinning prop on the boat is not the same. Those of you who, like me, are failur...

Oswego John wrote: ... Is it a secnd rudder that is part of a self steering system, or what? ...

Which rudderpost do you use to determine if she is a ketch or a yawl?? ;>))

Was the meter set to DC??

Did you mean
Stephen Knox
Knox Marine Consultants
12116 Greenwick Ct.
Glen Allen, VA 23059-5447 ??

Troy:

Thanks for the warning. I guess that may only work when you are there to try to protect yourself.

What body of water are you going to be on? Our thoughts center on the lower Chesapeake, perhaps the middle neck. Which side? Deltaville is worth looking into, I know there is a couple good yards there that fit the description I gave above. Actually Deltaville is where we were looking. When I first ...

Joe CD MS 300 wrote:What body of water are you going to be on?

Our thoughts center on the lower Chesapeake, perhaps the middle neck.

I am completely new to boat ownership and have no idea of what to look for in a boat yard. I do know that I want to do most work myself. I am wondering what you folks find important.

(I tried searching with the keywords yard and choice. Should I have tried other keywords?)